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Mutual banking, by the organization of credit, will secure the
greatest possible production of wealth and its most equitable
distribution; and mutual insurance, by the organization of
risk, will do the utmost that can be done to mitigate and
equalize the suffering arising from its accidental destruction.—Liberty, April 1, 1882.

Democracy has been defined as the principle that "one man
is as good as another, if not a little better." Anarchy may be
defined as the principle that one government is as bad as
another, if not a little worse.—Liberty, May 12, 1883.

In a lecture in Milwaukee a short time ago Clara Neyman
of New York said that "if women could have the right to
vote, they would devise better means of reform than those of
narrow prohibition." Yes, indeed; there would be nothing
narrow about their prohibition; it would be of the broadest
kind, including everything from murder to non-attendance at
church.—Liberty, May 12, 1883.

Eighteen men and women who had been punished once for
all the crimes they had ever been convicted of committing,
and against whom there was no shred of evidence of having
committed any new crime, or of harboring any intention of
committing any new crime, were taken into custody by the
New York police on Thursday, August 6, on no pretext whatever
save that these persons had the reputation of being
professional pick-pockets, and that it was the part of prudence
to keep such characters in jail until after the Grant obsequies,
when they might be arraigned in court and discharged for
want of evidence against them. That is to say, eighteen
persons, presumably innocent in the eye of the law, had to be
deprived of their liberty and kept in dungeons for four days,
in order that some hundreds of thousands of people, half of
them numskulls and the other half hypocrites, might not be
obliged to keep their hands on their pocket-books while they
shed crocodile tears at the grave of one of the foremost
abettors of theft and plunder which this century has produced.
And the upholders of governments continue to prate of the
insecurity that would prevail without them, and to boast of
the maxim, while thus violating it, that "it is better that
ninety-nine guilty men should escape than that one innocent
man should suffer."—Liberty, August 15, 1885.